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Re: Request For Comments On File Insert API
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Re: Request For Comments On File Insert API


  • Subject: Re: Request For Comments On File Insert API
  • From: Toby Thain <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:48:46 -0400


On 21-Mar-08, at 4:11 PM, Brian Pinkerton wrote:

It's an interesting idea, and it's pretty easy to see how it could give some applications a big boost. ...

Another concern is compatibility across file systems on the Mac. ...

+1.

And thinking one level up, every new interface that is specific to an operating system adds that much work to portable applications (unless we ignore it). Thank God for POSIX...

Another meta-remark, isn't this functionality better found at an application level by using a library/embedded (R)DBMS such as SQLite? If the FS engineers are looking for things to do, perhaps optimisations that benefit all RDBMS on OS X would be the place to start (MySQL, SQLite, BDB, PgSQL, Firebird, Ingres, and the dozens of others).

--Toby


bri



On Mar 20, 2008, at 3:40 AM, Quinn wrote:

Greetings All

Mac OS X file system engineering is considering a new API for inserting data in the middle of a file.
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